In chatting with her he discovered that she was a new marketing executive for the big boot company in Topeka and was renting a place about fifteen mil...s away. He also found out that for someone who looked like she did she was very intelligent and down-to-earth. Rolly decided that she probably wasn't the type to settle down with a high school graduate farmer; and with his unusual private life it was probably best to keep her at a distance.Rolly had asked that she call the night before to let him. She sat on my bed and said, "what have you done to my son?" "What do you mean mother?" I asked. "Your interest in our shopping trip, cleaning the house. Tommy, you don't normally do those things, what gives?" "Nothing mom, I just started and couldn't stop, it's 'no big deal!'" "Well okay for now," mom said, "take off your top and I'll rub this lotion on." As I pulled my tee shirt off, Mom's eyes almost popped out of her head. She jumped up and slammed my bedroom door closed. On. A floor lamp was sitting next to him, dust motes floating around in its beam. "Your bad dreams, for the most part." It's still gonna be seen as a preachy piece of shit, like the stuff we used to put out. You wanna play in front of mohawked D-students the rest of your life? Why are you so much in love with that song, anyway? There's no dead women in it." I've got Diane, Pink Turns To Blue, and a coupla other songs like that, and you've got a couple thousand 'I'm miserable, and life sucks, and. I honestly don't know. The AI insists that we encountered an uncharted space-time anomaly. But it won't tell us what type of anomaly, it only insists that we don't have the foundational knowledge to understand what has happened. GRR! I'm pursuing all the courses in physics that are available through the sleep-trainer. Then I'm looking into the ones on cosmology. One or the other ought to help me gain the 'foundational knowledge' the AI is certain that I lack!We made enough survey drones to.